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Fwd: [Fsf-web] FSF-India IRC Meet Tomorrow
by Anivar Aravind 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Baishampayan Ghose <b.ghose(a)gnu.org.in> Date: Oct 4, 2005 1:58 PM Subject: [Fsf-web] FSF-India IRC Meet Tomorrow To: FSF-India Web Page Developers List <fsf-web(a)mm.gnu.org.in> Hello GNUHeads! This is to inform you all of the date and agenda of the first ever IRC meet of FSF-India web developers, admins & the working group. The date / time and the agenda is as follows -- Date - Wed Oct 5, 2005 Time - 16:30 - 19:30 Hrs. Place - #gnu-india on irc.freenode.net Agenda - o Moving to Drupal - Issues - Sharing responsibilities - Moving the content - Timeline - Integrating the fellow registration system - Integrating the Volunteer & Business DBs o Merchandise - Decide on what we are going to make - Who's going to do it - Timeline o A new private mailing list for the admins - Viability o Other project ideas The actual meet might not be 3 hours long, if we all come at the right time, we will finish within an hour or so, I have kept the time flexible so that people can drop in their own time. This is done only because this is the first meet, and it will not be the case for the next meets. Also, please make sure you all come to the meet. A consensus is necessary to get the things going. If anybody has problems, please speak up now! Have a nice day all, Regards, BG -- Baishampayan Ghose Free Software Foundation of India b.ghose at gnu.org.in _______________________________________________ Fsf-web mailing list Fsf-web(a)mm.gnu.org.in http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-web Anivar Aravind -- __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n. (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.

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Track 4: linking Free Software and non-profits
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

Can we share this vision in India? FN Track 4: linking Free Software and non-profits http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=1693586 GOA, India -- The Philippines is moving fast ahead in the task of building bridges between non-profits and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). LinuxWorld Philippines 2005, held in mid-September, is the biggest and only nationwide Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) event in that country. In September 2005, APC member Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) coordinated the civil society participation in the LinuxWorld Philippines event, held at mid-month in Makati City, MetroManila. LinuxWorld Philippines is the biggest and only Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) event in the country. This three-day event aims at showcasing and discussing GNU/Linux and other free and open source solutions that the government, private sector, academe and civil society may tap for various purposes, Al Alegre and Nina Somera of FMA said. "The good news is that we have been successful in convincing -- the organizers Media G8Way, the top publisher of ICT publications here, affiliated with the IDG group, http://www.mediag8way.com/events -- to have a separate track for public interest and policy concerns. This would be aside from the usual event tracks: business applications, technical and systems, workshops," FMA organisers told APC News while updating us on the event. The Public Interest and Advocacy track consisted of sessions that tackled the policy issues around FOSS (which is also called FLOSS, or Free/Libre and Open Source Software); the use of FOSS in different sectors such as education, health, and environment; and the implications of FOSS on gender and intellectual property regimes. Similarly, it looked at FOSS-based tools which non-profits can deploy for advocacy, secure online communications; FOSS migration cases and many more. FMA's participation in Linux World is basically a follow up to its ongoing Policy, Praxis and Public Interest forum series. Framing FOSS as a development imperative, FMA organized a forum on the political and social implications on FOSS in last year's conference, then called the Philippine Open Source Conference. FMA also organized one of the first FOSS training-workshops for NGOs last November. Track 4, focussing on Public Interest and Advocacy, was organised at the Dusit Hotel Makati from September 14-16. It was aimed at the people who want to go beyond business applications or technical competency. Aiming to get the traditional GNU/Linux and FOSS crowd interested in public policy and advocacy, it also targets a potential new emerging constituency -- the nonprofit/NGO crowd, who are into GNU/Linux and FOSS for its social and political implications. Organizers extended to NGOs (non-government organizations) and government personnel a discounted rate, to encourage their full participation. Key sessions at this event looked at FOSS@PH (The State of GNU/Linux and Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) in the Philippines). It then looked at FOSS(a)GOV.PH (GNU/Linux and FOSS in government, featuring interesting cases, highlighting learnings from current initiatives, and pinpointing challenges faced by FOSS advocates in government). The aim was to look at government in different levels -- national agencies, local governments, government corporations, and the enabling institutions such as CICT/NCC Commission on ICT- National Computer Center); and e-government applications using FOSS. FOSS(a)EDU.PH was a session focussing on FOSS in education, as its name suggests. This session targetted covering different aspects of the Philippine educational ecosystem: basic public education & private education including curriculum development, teacher training; nonformal education; FOSS migration experiences within schools; use of FOSS in education and learning technologies. FOSS(a)NGO.PH, on the other hand, looked at FOSS in non-governmental organizations. It aimed at giving a report on the state of FOSS initiatives in associative organizations, feature interesting cases and experiments, highlight learnings from current initiatives, and pinpoint particular challenges faced by FOSS advocates in civil society organizations and NGOs. Civil society organizations using FOSS in different development sectors (e.g., health, environment, media, rural development, etc.) were asked to share experiences. FOSS, GNU/Linux, and Gender was another session. Groups like the APC member Womens' Hub and Isis International-Manila have drawn attention for their work on this front. Besides this, the organizers also worked to have a policy forum/dialogue which looked at policy dilemmas and development imperatives, with the participation of key ICT policymakers. "This session will pose one of the most crucial (and controversial) issues in FOSS advocacy in the Philippines. It aims to present an overview of FOSS policy initiatives undertaken in different countries, and its implications in terms of policy options for the Philippines. It will put FOSS advocates in dialogue with policy makers to explore possible recommendations. A multi-stakeholder panel (government, private sector, civil society) will be convened," organizers announced prior to the meet. There was a wealth of angles from which this issue was looked out. One can sense how deep the Philippines has ventured into the task of building bridges between non-profits and FOSS simply by looking at the issues being tackled there. Legal issues in FOSS was another focus, looking at licenses and licensing (OSI, GPL, FreeBSD); legality and enforceability of FOSS (i.e., contract law, IP Code/TTA provisions, international precedents); and some interesting cases (for example, the SCO Case). Other sessions looked at FOSS for advocacy (introducing public interest organizations to basic software tools to fulfill one of the basic functions of development organizations); secure computing using FOSS tools; and moving from open source to open content (alternatives to 'intellectual property' and the public domain). There was also a focus on the FOSS business models for small, marginal and medium enterprises; FOSS in the creative professions (writing for GNU/Linux, and GNU/Linux for writers); adopting a GNU/Linux lifestyle; nurturing and sustaining the Philippine FOSS ecosystem (understanding what needs to be done to promote FOSS in a strategic and programmatic way); and working on an action plan. LinuxWorld Philippines site Originator: --- (APCNews) Date: 10/02/2005 Location: GOA, India Contact: editor(a)apc.org Category: Free Software Source: APCNews

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More details of software freedomday
by Arun M 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

http://ap.gnu.org.in/software_freedom_day_2005.html

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Software Freedom Day and the Software Freedom Rally.
by Arun M 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

01-10-05 Hyderabad. Invitation Software Freedom Day and the Software Freedom Rally. The program details are : Motor Cycle Rally starting at Hyderabad Central University at 9:00 AM Technical Session on Power of GNU/Linux 9:00 AM Seminar on Free Software and India 11.00AM Venue :OU College of Engineering. Free Software Foundation of India is celebrating 'Software Freedom day' on 2nd October 2005. As part of the celebration FSF India is organising a half day seminar and exhibition at Osmania University College of Engineering,Hydrabad, Andra Pradesh. The motor Cycle Rally starts at Hyderabad Central University touches JNTU and will reach OU College of Engineering. Speakers in the Seminar : Prof. D N Reddy Principal OU College of Engg. Dr. G.Ravi Kumar Director, Geodata GSI. M.Arun Secretary FSF India. Technical Session on Power of GNU/Linux 9:00 AM Seminar on Free Software and India 11.00AM Venue :OU College of Engineering. Free Software Foundation of India is celebrating 'Software Freedom day' on 2nd October 2005. As part of the celebration FSF India is organising a half day seminar and exhibition at Osmania University College of Engineering,Hydrabad, Andra Pradesh. 2nd October is birth anniversary of one of the greatest freedom fighters of the world, Mahatma Gandhi. FSF India decided to celebrate 'Software Freedom day' on 2nd October as a tribute to Mahatma, and to remind people that fight for freedom is never over. Free Software Movement is leading freedom struggle in domain of information technology. This movement is fight for the freedom of knowledge and freedom to communicate. Right to share knowledge, and right to communicate are as important as political freedom for which Mahatma fought. Today we are carrying his fight to new frontiers. Day by day more and more people are realising the importance of software freedom. On this birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi Freedom campaigners from different sections of the society will come together to celebrate Software Freedom day and to pledge to defend freedom in computing,following path shown by freedom fighters around world. Exhibition arranged on the day will showcase commonly useful freesoftwares like GCC,Kdevelop,Blender etc. Special focus of exhibition will be how free software will help students. About FSF India The Free Software Foundation Of India is a non-profit organisation committed to advocating, promoting and propagating the use and development of swatantra software in India. Our goal is to ensure the long term adoption of free software, and aim for the day when all software will be free (swatantra). This includes educating people about software freedom and convincing them that it is the freedom that matters. We regard non-free proprietary software as a problem to be solved, not as a solution to any problem. Y.Kiran Chandra Convenor FSFIndia AP Chapter

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Fwd: Bloggers Meet - Oct 8th?
by Thejesh GN 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

Interested please leave a msg on blogbang(a)googlegroups.com mallika: Can you put a msg on http://everymanscity.blogspot.com/ Thanks, Thej http://eventsbangalore.blogspot.com/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mallika Galagali <> Date: Sep 28, 2005 9:51 AM Subject: Bloggers Meet - Oct 8th? To: blogbang(a)googlegroups.com Hi All, At the risk of starting another infinite conversational loop, am proposing 8th of October (Saturday) for the Bloggers Meet....let's finally get this baby off the ground!! Agenda, I guess, will pretty much be as with the first meet...get to know each other, table a few common activities we can carry out (eg., volunteering with Akshara, theme-based writing, etc, etc...). What say? And if we can get quorum, my suggestion that we go ahead and meet! - Taz

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FFII, NoSWPats Win CNet Award for Outstanding Contribution to SW Development
by Anivar Aravind 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Seth Johnson <seth.johnson(a)realmeasures.dyndns.org> Date: Sep 28, 2005 5:45 PM Please send congratulations to FFII and Nosoftwarepatents.com for their glorious work keeping software excluded from patentability in Europe! Seth > http://www.cnetnetworks.co.uk/awards/2005_winners.html#contri_software Outstanding Contribution to Software Development Winner: NoSoftwarePatents.com & The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) NoSoftwarePatents.com and the FFII joined forces last year to campaign against the European software patent directive, which many feared would open the doors to an increasingly litigious marketplace in which small businesses would struggle to survive. In July this year, the European Parliament unexpectedly rejected the directive, a victory which can be attributed to the tireless work of this alliance.

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Google Earth Exposes the Indian Military
by Shekhar Krishnan 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

Dear All: :: apologies for cross-posting :: This has caused quite an uproar in Mumbai, and the consequences will be interesting to follow. To read more about open geo-data and free mapping initiatives in India, see the Mumbai Free Map ( http://www.crit.org.in/projects/gis | http://freemap.crit.org.in | http://www.freemap.in ). Please also visit and sign the open geo-data manifesto hosted by the Open Knowledge Foundation ( http://okfn.org/geo/manifesto.php ) and visit Mapping Hacks ( http://www.mappinghacks.com ). Best, Shekhar _____ Google Earth exposes IAF bases CHARLES ASSISI TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2005 12:16:08 AM ] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1243460.cms MUMBAI: Legally, you aren’t supposed to come within arm’s length of India’s military bases. Whether it is the naval dockyards in Mumbai or the air force bases in New Delhi, Bangalore and Hyderabad, they continue to be strictly out of bounds for unauthorised personnel. But technology, unerringly, finds ways to subvert the law. A little over two weeks ago, Google released fresh satellite images of New Delhi, south Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad as part of its new initiative, Google Earth ( http://earth.google.com ). These images, available to anybody with access to the Net, provide users with images of earth from space. Punch New Delhi and the software first zooms in on Rashtrapati Bhavan. After having taken a look at its lawns, take in a detailed perspective of Parliament building. Maybe, fly over the Prime Minister’s residence. And if that doesn’t satiates the voyeur in you, move over to Palam Airport where IAF planes are based. The level of detail even reveals the camouflage used to mask hangars. Pictures of Mumbai reveal with numbing clarity the docks where INS Viraat is berthed. Users can zoom close enough to take a reasonably good look at the deck of India’s lone aircraft carrier. Browse around and you can stroll past piers where warships of all kinds and submarines are docked. Pan across to take a long look at what lies beyond the fortified gates of Navy Nagar where access is normally controlled by gun-wielding guards. And if that isn’t enough, there are shots of a carrier under construction, which sources speculate, could be the top secret advanced technology vessel (ATV). It’s much the same thing with Bangalore. The air force base at Yelahanka with the jets and helicopters parked are available for all to view. And if it’s the HAL factory you’re interested in, zoom right in. -- ______ Shekhar Krishnan 9, Supriya, 2nd Floor 709, Parsee Colony Road no.4 Dadar, Mumbai 400014 India http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar http://web.mit.edu/~shekhar/www

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NISG NeGP initiative at a cost of Rs.14,000 CRORES
by Ramanraj K 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

National Institute for Smart Government (NISG) is driving the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) and estimated to cost Rs. 14,000 Crores. Governance has evolved by trial and error over a very long period of time, much the way free software evolves these days. Governance was thought best to be divided into legislative, executive and judiciary. eGovernance could avoid the many prejudices a human executive suffers, and the old divisions have to be redefined. Compare: developer : user :: legislator : citizen A BDFL manages the developer:user gap pretty much, and the right to fork satisfies the disgruntled in the unlimited virtual world. The legislator:citizen relationship is constrained severlely by limited resources, and there could be no right to fork. It is for this reason, the Constitutional machinery elaborately defines how citizens govern themselves by electing legislators. The existing Constitutional machinery assumes paper as the medium through which the laws will be executed. Writ of certiorari traditionally meant "calling for the (physical) records" - now, if a judge could "visit" the files through an electronic medium, the scope, nature and methods of the writ stands vastly modified. Each and every constitutional device, control and measure has to be modified to suit the new medium of execution. Traditionally, constitutions are classified as written and unwritten, and today we have to create a new classification electronic and non-electronic. The constitutional machinery has to be totally rebuilt from scratch to suit the new medium. eGovernance actually calls for serious debates on constitutional reform before spending a single rupee on any eGovernance program. Sprinkling "IBM", "Linux", "Open Source", "Open Standards" and other catch words here and there over the project are mere incidental things that do not go to the core issues of governance. Does the GOI expect IBM to give the framework for eGovernance? Is Indian legislative history (1600 - 1950) repeating itself ? E-Courts has been added to their planning boards as an after thought, and clearly shows poor planning. Burning 14K Crores (in two years ?) over NeGP, that too controlled by NASSCOM sounds very stupid, to say the least. They are looking for consultants (apply at your own risk ;) and I hope they don't get too smart ;) Bullock carts fitted with electric motors won't move efficiently - NiSG is only doing this and this is not my imagination: their advt calling for consultants has the wheel of a bullock cart with an e in the centre :) There are other strange issues there too: :: forwarded message :: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [eGovINDIA] The Share-holding pattern of NISG as obtained from NISG website (MOA) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 06:13:45 -0700 (PDT) From: eGov INDIA <egovindia(a)yahoo.com> Reply-To: eGovINDIA(a)yahoogroups.com To: eGov INDIA <egovindia(a)yahoogroups.com> NISG is a controlled company - You all can look at it. Who are all involved in it ON behalf of President of INDIA the following GOI departments are partners. 1. Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Government of India, 2. Department of Information Technology, Government of India 3. Mr. R. Chandrashekar, Officer on Special Duty (NISG), Current Joint Secretary eGovernance of GOI. Who makes most of the decisions now. He is from GOAP cadre and was in GOAP before coming as JS of GOI. NASSCOM is facilitating this. They are SILENT partners. Which holds 52 % This is for name sake. The Share-holding pattern of NISG as obtained from NISG website (MOA) is as under: http://www.nisg.org/corpinfo.htm 1. Ajay Kumar Agarwal, S/o Shri Krishna Murari Lal Agarwal, Secretary, For and on behalf of President of India, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Government of India, North Block, New Delhi – 110 001 160 Equity Shares of Rs.100/- each (One Hundred and Sixty only) Total Amount : Rs 16000 2. Rajeeva Ratna Shah, S/o Shri Janardhan Das Shah, Secretary For and on behalf of President of India, Department of Information Technology, Government of India Electronic Niketan, 6 CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 110 003 160 Equity Shares of Rs.100/- each (One Hundred and Sixty only) Total Amount : Rs 16000 3. Kiran Karnik, S/o Shri Sharadchandra Karnik, President For and On behalf of National Association of Software and Services Companies, International Youth Centre, Teen Murti Marg, Chanikya Puri, New Delhi – 110 021 520 Equity Shares of Rs. 100/- each (Five Hundred and Twenty Only) Total Amount: Rs 52000 4 Rentala Chandrashekhar, S/o Shri Rentala Ramachandra Rao, Officer on Special Duty (NISG) For and On behalf of President of India Government of India, 4007, Electronics Niketan, 6, CGO Complex, Lodi Road, New Delhi – 110 003 160 Equity Shares of Rs.100/- each (One Hundred and Sixty only) Total Amount : 16000 Ministry of Personnel : 16000 Ministry of IT : 16000 Ministry of IT: 16000 NASSCOM : 52000 GOI share value 48000 NASSCOM share value 52000 Current Shareholder pattern 48 % and 52 % For just Rs52000 one can hold majority stake in NISG which is going to decide GOI investment of Crores of rupees ? Is it PPP ? NISG has to be AUDITED by CAG CVC need to look into NISG activities ! ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpgUKB/pzNLAA/cUmLAA/tSwplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eGovINDIA/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: eGovINDIA-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

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where do the software get installed..?
by Amachu 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

say we r installing a software xxxxx.rpm ... where will it go and instal? (Like in Windows we have c:\Program files ????) How to find the location of installation? Can we choose it on our own? -- Regards, Amachu Mobile: 91 98417 72001

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Re: [Fsf-friends] Public knowledge politics
by doxa＠sancharnet.in 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Dear Sasi, Today's Hindu carries a *story* by Anand Parthasarathy. AP seems to be spreading a message that "vulnerability of Free Software" is easily derived through the reported instances of "vulnerability of Firefox.exe". Its a shame that people holding such responsible positions, still carry out such propaganda. CK Raju, Thrissur ----------------- http://ernakulam.sancharnet.in/doxa

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Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 29, Issue 21
by Amachu 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

well, with regard to versioning, i intended to ask as 2 how a software in modified to suit the latest OS version... say for eg: a software like xine for fc4 differing from its own version for fc3. also is it the kervel version of the OS that determines the OS version... am i confusing!! Ooof... to put it simply what makes a software wriiten for fc3 uncompatible for fc4? -- Regards, Amachu Mobile: 91 98417 72001

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reg Mail Subject line (was Re: [Fsf-friends] Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 29, Issue 21)
by Archana.S.R 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

hi, > i know its possible to mount all available partitions automatically when the > OS boots.. > > i've seen it happen when i booted Dynebolic live cd.. please use proper subject lines in the mail lists -- Archana.S.R.

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Call For Proposal - Sarai/CSDS FLOSS fellowships
by V Vivek 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

CALL FOR PROPOSAL Sarai/CSDS Short Term FLOSS Fellowship, 2005 - 2006. The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi (www.sarai.net) invites applications for fellowship to projects in the area of Free Software, Open Source Software and Social Usage of Software. Sarai invites developers/researchers/ programmers (practitioners as well as students) to propose projects in the area of free and open source software applications relevant to educational, social and community needs. We are looking for original ideas, as well as proposals to localize and adapt existing software and applications to South Asian conditions. We are also looking for ideas around technical manuscripts,beginners manuals, review manuscripts etc. Some of the focus areas are: - Indic Computing - Developing/Distributing/Supporting a standalone / addon localized Linux distribution - Printing support (i.e. ability to print in Indian Languages) - Multimedia / Publishing Tools Research - Developing / Enhancing Tools like GIMP, Scribus for publishing quality work - Enhancing current audio/video tools available under Linux - Fixing/Supporting Cinelerra, LiVES etc - P2P - Researching on feasibility and implementation of P2P news distribution network - Researching and developing - Collaboration Tools/Frameworks (Apnaopus, CreativeDot ) - Developing extensions for the project newsrack( http://floss.sarai.net/newsrack ). - Low Resource Computing - Devising solutions for networked computing in Low Resource Spaces (Define the parameters of the "low resource space" and work on it) - Generic - Developing Linux drivers/software for easily available hardware (usually the cheapest hardware available on the market is not supported under Linux (scanners, webcams etc)) [ This would include writing a howto on how to get it to work under popular distributions (redhat, pcqlinux etc) and all.. ] - Review papers on emerging technologies - Indic Computing - IPV6 - Wireless Networks - Manuscripts for beginners What is Sarai: _____________ Sarai is a public initiative of media practitioners and scholars looking at media cultures and urban life. Sarai's interests are in the field of old and new media, information and communication technologies, free software, cinema, and urban space - its politics, built form, ecology, culture and history, with a strong commitment to making knowledge available in the public domain. It is a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. For more information visit www.sarai.net . Sarai is committed to promoting the free software and open source vision. Conditions: __________ Applicants should be resident in India, and should have a bank account in any bank operating in India. These are support grants and grantees will be free to pursue their primary occupations, if any. Mail your project proposal, workplan and CV to both the following addresses: <floss at sarai.net <https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/prc> > Please mark your subject line 'FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) Initiative'. Also point out what you see as the relevance of your work, and how you plan to share the resultant software once finalized. Enquires: <floss at sarai.net <https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/prc>> Last date for submission: November 15th, 2005 Note: Proposals from teams, partnerships, collectives, faculty are welcome, so long as the grant amount is administered by a single individual, and the funds are deposited in a single bank account in the name of an individual.

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Versioning
by Amachu 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

hi, what will be software vendors do to update their software version compatible to the latest version of the OS release.. can some one give briefing.. -- Regards, Amachu Mobile: 91 98417 72001

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Mounting NTFS partition
by Amachu 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Hi, this is regarding NTFS partition.. is it possible to mount a NTFS partition in Gnu/Linux? is so what r the steps? -- Regards, Amachu Mobile: 91 98417 72001

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To open software within three years
by Manjush G.Menon 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Original Message ----- From: "IT@School" <itschool(a)asianetindia.com> To: <manjushmenon(a)hotmail.com> Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 5:08 PM Subject: Reply > Mr.Manjush G. Menon > We are not giving to depend totally on Ms. Products. Rather MS > Office is taught along with open office and Windows along with Linux > from this year. Arranging the resource persons for training an open > software, making available the software, the maintenance of a help desk > etc. are logistical issues which could not be immediately undertaken. > We plan switch out to open software within three years. > Executive Director > ---- Original Message ----- From: Manjush G. Menon To: itschool(a)asianetindia.com Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 5:46 PM Subject: Respected sir, From Manjush G. Menon, Sr.Programmer, Sofker Solutions Pvt Ltd, Kochi-18. To The Executive Director, 'IT @ SCHOOL' Project, SCERT Buildings, Poojapura, Thiruvananthapuram-12. Respected sir, SUB: In protest against the inclusion of products from multinational companies in the syllabus of 'IT @ SCHOOL' It's a very dissappointing fact that when the whole world is moving towards Free software, we at kerala are going behind a major MNC - Microsoft. I hereby register my protest in such an act from 'IT @ SCHOOL' Project team. Breaking of prototypes will definetly help us in finding economical and high quality products for our future generation. For students and programmers, the GNU Linux contains 'GNU Compiler Collections' which includes C, C++, FORTRAN, PERL, TCL etc. Also, for DTP and other publishing purposes, it includes GNU Office utilities like Abi-Word, gedit, and other worksheet utilities, all these with a nominal cost of Rs 700-800/-. The software as it is, is free and the cost is accounted towards the media (CD + Documentation) included. By this letter, I urge you to take this matter seriously and suggest necessary modifications in the action plan of 'IT @ SCHOOL' project. Wishing you all the best and wishing all 'Students @ SCHOOL' a bright future, Thanking you, Yours faithfully Manjush G. Menon. ______________________________________________________ Check out all the latest outrageous email attachments on the Outrageous Email Chart! - http://viral.lycos.co.uk

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TUX magazine for newbies
by Tinku Sampath 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

I am only a few months old in this mailing list. So i am not sure whether any discussion happened on a subject that i am going to include in this mail. I would like to turn everyone of your attention to a simple and wonderful free on line PDF publication named ' TUX '.... a good looking and helpful GNU/Linux magazine for every newbies/desktop users. The magazine, which is lead by Phil Hughes, is from the same people behind the most famous ' Linux Journal ' , under the editorial board of Nicholas Petreley. The magazine is most suitable to all desktop users of GNU/Linux since due to its.... * Professional look * Simple and expressive language * Well balanced by individual segments (Feed backs, Q&A segment, Features quality applications, GNU/Linux Hardwares...) * Making maximum things work with GUI without inviting desktop users to taste the hazards of shell * Monthly releases in time I am sure that most of will be matured users of GNU/Linux systems... If this PDF publication is not suitable for you, at least you can recommend it to your friends and relatives who are now having their first experience with GNU/Linux systems. Visit [1]http://www.tuxmagazine.com and subscribe for hot copies.... - Tinku Sampath References 1. http://www.tuxmagazine.com/

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totem movie player in fc4
by Amachu 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

hi all, recently i had installed fc4 on my pc and had probs in opening totem movie player... it showed some "......ALSA........." error...... i then removed it and re-installed totem which resoved the issue. any one having same probs with fc4 try this out. -- Regards, Amachu Mobile: 91 98417 72001

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Schools become the hottest target
by doxa＠sancharnet.in 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

M$ isn't far behind when it comes to targeting schools. ---------Story from The Hindu ------------ To adopt 100 schools for providing interactive learning environment # Maran, Gates meet in Redmond # Assistance for promoting broadband usage, e-governance # `Windows XP Starter Edition' exclusively for use in India # Microsoft to make available its education content NEW DELHI: : Microsoft on Thursday unveiled a cooperation initiative with the Indian Government in a host of areas such as removing the digital divide, promoting broadband usage and e-governance, apart from launching an India-specific operating system `Windows XP Starter Edition.'....Complete Story at http://www.hindu.com/2005/09/23/stories/2005092307331200.htm ---------------- We can now expect our IT minister to start talking about removing Microsoft-divide, by promoting the corporate's interests here. CK Raju, Thrissur

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Schools open gates for Microsoft
by Krishna Pagadala 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

Arun and others, Can you please comment on the following article. http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IER20050917015000&Page=R&Title=… Thanks Krishna ===================================== To Reflect, to Inspire and to Empower http://www.employees.org/~krishnap/ The great moral question of the twenty-first century is: If all knowledge, all culture, all art, all useful information, can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone -- if everyone can have everything, everywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone from anything? -Eben Moglen __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [Fsf-friends] GRAB FREE P4 PC & DVD WRITER
by Sameer N Ingole 20 Sep '05

20 Sep '05

RISKLESSRUPEES wrote: > [1]adepu_vuttu(a)yahoo.co.in > Can owner of this list ban this user please? Regards, -- Sameer N. Ingole

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GRAB FREE P4 PC & DVD WRITER
by RISKLESSRUPEES 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

HOME BASED - EARNING SYSTEM No worry of big payments Earn and enjoy BIG Income No Dollars Business Indian rupees only No Electronic Accounts Indian Bank Accounts No cheque Bouncing Only DD payments No Internet Bills Company work for you No Ad placing, No online works, No tension of Soft wares, No.. No...No.. But how is it possible....?????????? And don't forget U will to get a P4 PC + DVD WRITER Mail to: adepu_vuttu(a)yahoo.co.in With the Subject: "Send Me More Info" Be sure to include in the mail body : 1. First name 2. Last name 3. Email address 4. Address 5. State 6. Telephone 7. Mobile No Looking forward to hearing from you! FIRST COME FIRST SERVE. IT IS YOUR DREAM AND OUR PLAN Sincerely, RisklessRupees Team [1]adepu_vuttu(a)yahoo.co.in References 1. mailto:adepu_vuttu@yahoo.co.in

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GRAB FREE P4 PC & DVD WRITER
by RISKLESSRUPEES 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

HOME BASED - EARNING SYSTEM No worry of big payments Earn and enjoy BIG Income No Dollars Business Indian rupees only No Electronic Accounts Indian Bank Accounts No cheque Bouncing Only DD payments No Internet Bills Company work for you No Ad placing, No online works, No tension of Soft wares, No.. No...No.. But how is it possible....?????????? And don't forget U will to get a P4 PC + DVD WRITER Mail to: adepu_vuttu(a)yahoo.co.in With the Subject: "Send Me More Info" Be sure to include in the mail body : 1. First name 2. Last name 3. Email address 4. Address 5. State 6. Telephone 7. Mobile No Looking forward to hearing from you! FIRST COME FIRST SERVE. IT IS YOUR DREAM AND OUR PLAN Sincerely, RisklessRupees Team [1]adepu_vuttu(a)yahoo.co.in References 1. mailto:adepu_vuttu@yahoo.co.in

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Linux Trademark rejected by Australia
by Ramanraj K 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=11882 has reported: <quote> Linus Torvalds' bid to have the word 'Linux' trademarked in Australia has failed, with the local intellectual property regulator sending his lawyer a vitriolic letter deriding efforts to provide evidence the trademark application was legitimate. In the letter, published by ZDNet, the regulator points out that information from Wikipedia and Google used by the lawyer to support the trademark application is simply not effective in making the case for a trademark to be registered. </quote>

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Re: [Fsf-friends] GRAB FREE P4 PC & DVD WRITER
by Archana.S.R 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

it can atleast have an OT tag :( On 9/18/05, RISKLESSRUPEES <adepu_vuttu(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: > > > HOME BASED - EARNING SYSTEM > > > > No worry of big payments Earn and enjoy BIG > Income > > No Dollars Business Indian rupees only > > No Electronic Accounts Indian Bank Accounts > > No cheque Bouncing Only DD payments > > No Internet Bills Company work > for you > > No Ad placing, No online works, No tension of Soft wares, > > No.. No...No.. But how is it possible....?????????? > > And don't forget U will to get a P4 PC + DVD WRITER > > > > Mail to: adepu_vuttu(a)yahoo.co.in > > With the Subject: "Send Me More Info" > > Be sure to include in the mail body : > > 1. First name > > 2. Last name > > 3. Email address > > 4. Address > > 5. State > > 6. Telephone > > 7. Mobile No > > > > Looking forward to hearing from you! > > FIRST COME FIRST SERVE. > > IT IS YOUR DREAM AND OUR PLAN > > > > Sincerely, > > RisklessRupees Team > > [1]adepu_vuttu(a)yahoo.co.in <http://yahoo.co.in> > > References > > 1. mailto:adepu_vuttu@yahoo.co.in > _______________________________________________ > Fsf-friends mailing list > Fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in > http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends > -- Archana.S.R.

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GRAB FREE P4 PC & DVD WRITER
by RISKLESSRUPEES 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

HOME BASED - EARNING SYSTEM No worry of big payments Earn and enjoy BIG Income No Dollars Business Indian rupees only No Electronic Accounts Indian Bank Accounts No cheque Bouncing Only DD payments No Internet Bills Company work for you No Ad placing, No online works, No tension of Soft wares, No.. No...No.. But how is it possible....?????????? And don't forget U will to get a P4 PC + DVD WRITER Mail to: adepu_vuttu(a)yahoo.co.in With the Subject: "Send Me More Info" Be sure to include in the mail body : 1. First name 2. Last name 3. Email address 4. Address 5. State 6. Telephone 7. Mobile No Looking forward to hearing from you! FIRST COME FIRST SERVE. IT IS YOUR DREAM AND OUR PLAN Sincerely, RisklessRupees Team [1]adepu_vuttu(a)yahoo.co.in References 1. mailto:adepu_vuttu@yahoo.co.in

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GRAB FREE P4 PC & DVD WRITER
by RISKLESSRUPEES 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

HOME BASED - EARNING SYSTEM No worry of big payments Earn and enjoy BIG Income No Dollars Business Indian rupees only No Electronic Accounts Indian Bank Accounts No cheque Bouncing Only DD payments No Internet Bills Company work for you No Ad placing, No online works, No tension of Soft wares, No.. No...No.. But how is it possible....?????????? And don't forget U will to get a P4 PC + DVD WRITER Mail to: adepu_vuttu(a)yahoo.co.in With the Subject: "Send Me More Info" Be sure to include in the mail body : 1. First name 2. Last name 3. Email address 4. Address 5. State 6. Telephone 7. Mobile No Looking forward to hearing from you! FIRST COME FIRST SERVE. IT IS YOUR DREAM AND OUR PLAN Sincerely, RisklessRupees Team [1]adepu_vuttu(a)yahoo.co.in References 1. mailto:adepu_vuttu@yahoo.co.in

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Re: [Fsf-friends] Birthday Calendar
by Baishampayan Ghose 17 Sep '05

17 Sep '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sarath, > Please click on the link below and enter your birthday for me. I am creating a birthday calendar > for myself. Don't worry it is quick, and you don't have to enter your year of birth:-). > http://www.birthdayalarm.com/bd2/53584795a643611255b767494430c569054343d905 This type of mail is totally off-topic here. Please don't post such mail from on. We have better work to do than remembering our own birthdays, leave alone others, and it's not that we care. Regards, BG - -- Baishampayan Ghose Free Software Foundation of India b.ghose at gnu.org.in -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDK6kIQkk0lIY2G3QRAo0TAKCbXBsCGHZnBX4m09NCRd6p7CfzPgCdGQT2 +R1WdI3rh8L8NuHVmAL59sE= =gc20 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Birthday Calendar
by Sarath Lakshman 17 Sep '05

17 Sep '05

Hi, Please click on the link below and enter your birthday for me. I am creating a birthday calendar for myself. Don't worry it is quick, and you don't have to enter your year of birth:-). http://www.birthdayalarm.com/bd2/53584795a643611255b767494430c569054343d905 Thanks, Sarath

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INDIA: FN'sEyeOnFLOSS *** Freedel on Sept 17/18 at New Delhi *** 09162005
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

................................................................ FN's Eye on FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software ........ ................................................................ IOSN COMES OUT WITH A PRIMER ON OPEN STANDARDS IOSN's open standards primer. * Download the primer: Open Document format (111KB) http://www.iosn.net/open-standards/foss-open-standards-primer/foss-openstds… * PDF format (485KB) http://www.iosn.net/open-standards/foss-open-standards-primer/foss-openstds… [</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>] MORE USEFUL URLs AND SOME CORRECTIONS TOO Thanks to Komal <agencies_ad1(a)sancharnet.in> for pointing out that the correct link for xfree86 is www.x.org and for the Linux documentation project is www.tldp.org (and not as rendered earlier). And thank you Prachee Agarwal <agarwal_prachee(a)yahoo.co.in> of the Lucknow LUG lucknow-lug(a)yahoogroups.com for responding with *your* favourite links: www.indlinux.org www.gentoo.org www.linuxiso.org www.linuxquestions.org ftp://ftp.funet.fi Just shows how *everyone* benefits when something (information, code) is shared! [</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>] HOW-TO, ON TALKING THIS TIME... COURTESY PUNE Kanti Jadia <j_kanti(a)rediffmail.com> sent across this useful tip from PLUG, the Pune GNU/Linux Users Group, which explains *how to talk* http://plug.org.in/articles/articles.php?howtotalk [</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>] NOVELL COMES OUT WITH SOLUTIONS FOR INDIAN TONGUES AD (Andi) Marshall, out there in Vietnam, admarshall(a)gmail.com draws attention to this link, which says: "Novell is introducing Indian language versions of its Suse Linux distribution, according to an executive of the company..." COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,1ur7,1,dvc6,kevq,9a65,aayy IndLinux guru Guntupalli Karunakar <karunakar(a)freedomink.org> responds, to say: "Surprisingly, it doesnt mention Punjabi as supported, when Punjabi is most well supported language on any distribution, while Malayalam where l10n effort is slow pending resolution of Malayalam Unicode issues finds place. Maybe they were trying to be different ;)" [</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>] DELHI PLANS AN AMBITIOUS FREEDEL MEET, WITH LOCAL CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE Raj "Raju" Mathur <raju(a)linux-delhi.org> of ILUG-Delhi announces Freedel to be held on September 17/18 2005, 10:00AM to 6:00PM at PHD House, Hauz Khas, New Delhi. Two full days of demystifying [GNU]Linux. PHDCCI and India Linux Users Group - Delhi (ILUG-D) are behind the event. Says Mathur: "ILUG-D in the past has conducted very successful events where over 450 participants attended. This year we are expecting much greater numbers. People from all walks of life are expected to attend; students, professionals, corporates, all will be there. What's more, ILUG-D will have something to show for everyone. Technical talks covering issues from installation, to desktop usage to wireless [GNU]Linux, it will all be there. We will even have young school kids showing how they use [GNU]Linux. Its an event you don't want to miss!" Several stalls showcasing various aspects of Linux from gaming, to audio/video editing to development, servers, databases and applications. The event is organised by ILUG-D and co-hosted by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It is completely volunteer-driven and supported by several organisations. The event is primarily driven by volunteers of ILUG-D and a committed group of computer professionals from PHDCCI. Apart from all the technical stuff happening, there will also be T-shirts, Linux distributions on CDs, tea, snacks and all the elements of fun available at low or no cost. Be there, be counted! Contact: Raj Mathur raju(a)kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ [</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>] THOSE FREE CDs IN YOUR HAND, THEY'RE ACTUALLY WORTH MILLIONS Value of Debian GNU/Linux. The paper Measuring Libre Software studying the size of the source packages in Debian 3.1 calculates the size of sarge (close to 230 million lines of source code), the use of the various programming languages in which the software has been written, and the size of the packages included in the distribution. It also estimates cost to create something on the scale of Debian from scratch with a classical and well-known cost method (COCOMO) to be over 8 billion US dollar. http://www.upgrade-cepis.org/issues/2005/3/up6-3Amor.pdf Source: Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2005/37/ [</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>] IT'S NEW: A WIKI FOR THE FLOSS COMMUNITY IN INDIA Praveen A <pravi.a(a)gmail.com> has launched a new wiki for the Free/Libre and Open Source Software community in India. See http://fci.wikicities.com [</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>] AN EXPAT WHO CAN, AND PLANS TO, BUILD BRIDGES Adi Alurkar <adi(a)sf.net> is an Indian expat who could be one of those to build useful bridges. He announced on ILUG-Goa -- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa -- recently that he manages all the database related responsibilities for SourceForge.net and will be visiting India shortly. Aditya (Adi) is India between Oct 21 and Dec 9 and says that "during this visit I'd like to meet and chat with like minded folks and see how SF.net could help the F[L]OSS community in india better". He will be visiting family in South Maharashtra and South Gujarat, looks forward to getting feedback on how FLOSS is "taking hold in the Indian subcontinent" and wants an "excuse" to come to Goa, the place where he was raised and graduated (from Chowgule College). You're welcome mate! [</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>] FOSS.TV, WHAT'S THAT? JUST TAKE A PEEP Navin Dhanuka <dhanukanavin(a)gmail.com> has meanwhile gone ahead with FOSS.tv Says Navin, "Feedback about FOSS.tv is good as of now. Let's see if I can set it rolling soon." If you want to help him, just go for it. Hint: you need software of the video kind. To find out more about Navin, go to http://www.navin.ind.in [</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>] Copyleft -- verbatim copying, with credits -- allowed/encouraged. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick 'FN' Noronha | Independent Journalist Goa, India | +91(832)2409490 Cell 9822122436 ------------------------------------------------------------- 1995-2005: Ten years of waiting for community radio in India! To know more: https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/cr-india You can help: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/comradio/petition.html

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No marks for Free Software?
by Ramanraj K 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

In Indian philosophy, marks are very ancient and well known - creation and life itself began with a mark, which is symbolised by lingam. "Lingam" itself merely means "mark". Religious marks are quite easy to understand and use: at a single glance, you could easily distinguish between people professing various beliefs and faiths. Trade marks also serve an useful purpose in distinguishing between products and services, and the various classifications within it. At a time when the free software community should be encouraging the use of marks that easily identify free software, we find a strange development that may only discourage people from using the marks more freely. Are there no marks for free software? Without freely usable marks, free software will end up as a big zero. As a newbie, I struggled hard to see the connection between RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, and the others. They all had "Linux" written on it somewhere, that gave me a solid clue that they are all probably belonging to the same genus, and after digging into it, I even managed to get to gnu, fsf and gpl. It is odd that the free software community could produce tomes of free software, yet not have even one standard solid graphical mark to identify itself in simple uncomplicated ways. There is no confusion with FreeBSD: they have a nice list of logos, and a clear guide to help people on using them. Some logos are also available under a "beer-ware" licence :) http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/share/examples/BSD_dae… GNU was conceived by RMS and Linux by Linus (or the sys admin who named the dir linux ruling over freix name suggested by Linus, who was then too modest to name the kernel after himself). Though the currently available free gnu os is named and called "GNU/Linux", there is no graphic mark that could be uniformly applied to all distros. In the spirit of the movement, there should be atleast one logo that FSF, OSDL, OSI and all the others who contribute code could agree upon to be used either freely or upon payment of a token fee or formal permission. It would be a good idea to start this as a separate project and even see if this could be a source of revenue to sustain the free software community. HTH. -Ramanraj K "suksmavisayatvam ca alinga paryavasanam" - Patanjali "The subtlest level of nature is consciousness. When consciousness dissolves in nature, it loses all marks and becomes pure" - quoted from "Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali", by B.K.S. Iyengar.

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Software Freedom Day
by Ramanraj K 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

It struck me that "Software Freedom" may mean several things, including the idea that people have the freedom to lawfully acquire and use any software they like. Perhaps, it is this meaning that should be higlighted on Software Freedom Day in future, so that it may be celebrated by one and all in a spirit of brotherhood. Recognising the freedom to use any software we like would also mean that all have a chance to be treated alike, and no person would be criticised for his individual choice of software. I feel this may become increasingly apparent in the days to come.

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Fwd: success--in viewing maharashtra's electoral rolls in the open source firef
by krishnaact 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

--- In eGovINDIA(a)yahoogroups.com, Kush <kushkaran@f...> wrote: Hi all, I am trying to see the results for the electoral rolls from http://203.199.16.205/msd/ or any other district except "Mumbai city" in the open source web browser known as firefox. Unfortunately there is a need to install a font called DVBW-TTSurekh available from http://www.maharashtra.gov.in/fonts/fontsHelp.php specifically http://www.maharashtra.gov.in/fonts/bin/Dvbwsr0n.ttf (For windows machines-- this has to be copied into the windows\fonts directory whereas for linux its to be copied into the user's home directory's .fonts directory ie ~/.fonts) and the following lines at the beginning of the source page of the result need to be added (which only a person with a little knowledge of html and a text editor would be knowing) <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> Then only the results are seen properly. THERE IS NO NEED FOR A CDAC PLUGIN AT ALL--something which has been made mandatory for all visitors so that they only use microsoft's Internet explorer. The results were deliberately not working except for "mumbai city" which is the elite section of maharashtra because the results page had a missing meta tag as above. Only search results generated from mumbai city were working because this meta tag was generated correctly for them. this affected search results for all districts other than "Mumbai city" including Mumbai Suburban and Pune. Once the tag is properly generated in each resulting page, any browser (netscape, opera, mozilla etc) can view the results. This is another way that a premier GOVT agency like CDAC helps propagate Microsoft and its products in preference to what is good for the country by forcing the layman to use microsoft products and showing that there is no other way to get IT work done. Regards, Kussh --- End forwarded message ---

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INDIA: Useful GNU/Linux links... [Courtesy: http://ilug-cochin.org/cool_links.htm]
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

************************************************************************* Chennai LUG has a great wiki going there! http://www.chennailug.org/wiki/Main_Page ************************************************************************* 1. The GNU Homepage. http://www.gnu.org/ 2. The GNU philosophy. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ 3. What is free software ? Know it more http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html 4. kernal.org Linux kernel archives http://www.kernel.org/ 5. Linux.org: The official linux page. http://www.linux.org/ 6. Linux.com: The flagship Linux site. http://www.linux.com/ 7. Linuxlinks.com A Linux portal http://www.linuxlinks.com/ 8. Linuxberg.com Download Linux s/w http://www.linuxberg.com/ 9. Linuxmall.com Linux mall on the net http://www.linuxmall.com/ 10. Linuxworld.com Linux news http://www.linuxworld.com/ 11. Linuxjournal.com Linux Magazine http://www.linuxjournal.com/ 12. li.org Linux international http://www.li.org/ Indian Linux Users Group Cochin Chapter The Cochin chapter of Linux India is run by GNU/Linux enthusiasts in and around Cochin. 13. Slashdot.org: News for nerds. http://www.slashdot.org/ 14. Freshmeat.net http://www.freshmeat.net/ 15. xfree86.org http://www.xfree86.org/ 16. The Linux Documentation Project. http://www.linuxdoc.org/ 17. The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL). http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html 18. ANSI Escape Sequences. http://www.evergreen.edu/user/serv_res/research/bsi/people/dawn/program/ans… 19. The Linuxbox Network: Free hosting for your free software projects. http://www.linuxave.net/ 20. Linux Weekly News. http://www.lwn.net/ Dr Krishnan C N <cnkrish at au-kbc.org> iheading the National Resource Center on FLOSS housed in MIT, Anna University. This is a joint venture between Anna University and C-DAC. This group has been studying FLOSSt training aspect. ************************************************************************* ILUG-Goa's links * We welcome your participation! ************************************************************************* http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa ILUG-Goa's main friendly list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa-announce ANNOUNCE LIST http://groups.yahoo.com/group/teach-yourself-linux FOR NEWBIES http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linuxgoahelp TECH HELP LIST WEBSITES: http://ilug-goa.swiki.net http://www.ilug-margao.org *************************************************************************

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Fwd: Re: success--in viewing maharashtra's electoral rolls in the open source f
by krishnaact 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

--- In eGovINDIA(a)yahoogroups.com, Kush <kushkaran@f...> wrote: In firefox, try this - In menu go to view -> character encoding -> Western(iso--8859-1) Yes, Laxminarayan Kamath's solution is a very convenient solution and better than mine -no editing is required at all. Thanks for the simplest and best solution. Kussh Kush wrote: >Please see the text file at the end of this message which gives the >reason why the asp page won't work till it is edited by hand or a filter >plugin used to search for "charset=x-undefined" or similar string and >replaced with "charset=iso-8859-1". > >This is deliberately done to cause a problem with all browsers. Then the >plugin has been made to work only for IE to get over this simple problem >which would look exceedingly complex to a layman. > >regards, >kussh > >krishnaact wrote: > > >>I forwarded your email, and got the response below. Please let him >>know if it works. >> >>Laxminarayan Kamath" <kamathln@g...> Add to Address BookAdd to >>Address Book >>To: "Principal Support List of FSF-India" <fsf-friends@m...> >>Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] Fwd: success--in viewing maharashtra's >>electoral rolls in the open source fire >> >>On 9/10/05, krishnaact <krishnaact@y...> wrote: >> >> >> >>>--- In eGovINDIA(a)yahoogroups.com, Kush <kushkaran@f...> wrote: >>>Hi all, >>> >>>I am trying to see the results for the electoral rolls from >>>http://203.199.16.205/msd/ or any other district except "Mumbai city" >>>..... >>> >>> >>and the following lines at the beginning of the source page of the >> >> >> >>>result need to be added (which only a person with a little knowledge >>>of html and a text editor would be knowing) >>> >>><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; >>> >>> >>charset=iso-8859-1"> >> >> >> >>>Then only the results are seen properly. >>> >>> >>> >>In firefox, try this - In menuy go to view -> charector encoding -> >>Western(iso--8859-1) >>Please tell me if it works. >> >> >> >> >> >> > > >How to see the result correctly in any browser? >1 go to http://203.199.16.205/ > >2 click on the district you want to search for --say mumbai suburban >the page will then become http://203.199.16.205/msd > >3 add the following string "/default.asp?action=first" to the location >ie http://203.199.16.205/msd/default.asp?action=first. Now you will be >able to see only the top frame which is what is needed. > >4 enter the search criteria and click on the search button. a new >results page is opened. > >5 save the results page on your computer and open it for editing in a >simple text editor such as notepad. Rename the saved file with the >extension html instead of asp. > >6 search and replace the text "charset=x-user-defined" with >"charset=iso-8859-1". Save the file. > >7 double click the saved file to view the page and you will be able to >see the page in any browser if the surekha font DVBW-TTSurekh has been >properly installed in the correct location as given in my earlier messages. > >windows/fonts directory in case of windows >or ~/.fonts directory in case of linux. .fonts is a hidden directory and >needs to be created if its not already there. > >8 if you are not able to see the result properly, finetune the >configuration of the browser. For firefox one has to do the following > >a-- go to edit --preferences (linux) >or tools-options (in windows) > >b--click on fonts and colors under general > >c--use the following settings for >1 fonts for-- western >2 proportional--serif/sans serif >3 serif-- dvbw-ttsurekh >4 sansserif--dvbw-ttsurekh > >5 unclick/disable--"use my fonts" option in case it is enabled > >leave other settings unchanged. click on ok, ok and this should work. > >Thats it. > >********************************* > >ABOUT THE CDAC PLUGIN-- what it does-- >1 it just copies the missing font onto the users computer --works only >for windows operating system. It changes a few parts in the >configuration file for the browser --this has to be done by hand for the >other browsers. Change the configuration to make use of the newly >installed font. > >2 it does a simple search for the text "charset=x-user-defined" > and replaces it with "charset=iso-8859-1" > before the page is displayed on the browser. > >It does this by acting as a filter before the asp/html/php webpage is >displayed by the browser. Again the plugin works only for Internet explorer. > >But the key question is --why is the result page generated in the wrong >way with the incorrect meta tag--thus requiring a filter/plugin and >making it impossible for other browsers to view the page correctly. > >This is the herapheri which makes a Microsoft product the defacto king >in the country and it is patently wrong that certain people in the >establishment are promoting this. We have 6 crore voters in maharashtra. >Considering that only a 1000 know how to access this page, still >enhancing a mindset for these 1000 influential people > >Firefox and mozilla browsers are not only stronger/safer/faster and more >powerful but they are evolving faster because they are open source. This >way countries like China etc will be far ahead of us. China and Japan >already are promoting open source in a big way whereas our govt deptts >are acting as agents by dereliction of duty and unnecessary hurdles and >misinformation. > >I am using ubuntulinux (hoary version) which is such a user friendly and >windows compatible package that the transition from windows to linux is >much more pleasant than the transition to other linuxes >--www.ubuntulinux.org--some retraining is required such as knowing how >to use the system monitor (substitute task manager/process monitor in >windows), synaptic tool for downloading packages/software, klipper >(substitute for clipboard in windows), firestarter (substitute firewall >such as zone alarm in windows) openoffice (substitute msoffice in >windows) thunderbird email client(substitute outlook express in windows) >nautilus file manager (substitute windows file manager)d4x (substitute >download package like freshdownload or getright or gozilla etc in >windows for downloading big files or multiple pages) etc > > >****************************** > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- End forwarded message ---

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PHOENIX -Tool for experiments
by swathantra software 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Hello , PHOENIX, India's first open access electronic kit for data collection & analysis is now commercially available on mail order. For details of the project please visit (http://www.nsc.res.in). The features of PHOENIX * Low cost system for data collection * Digital signal input/output & conversion * Full access to internal design * Access to source code * Interface to "Scilab" for data analysis *GNU/Linux Live bootable CD * Innovative tool for designing experiments for science/engineering lab For general article on phoenix visit, http://www.livejournal.com/users/pramode_ce/1676.html Those interested in buying the hardware kit may contact S2S2. Regards Sujeevan S2S2, Kannur, Kerala (M)09447449107

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Fwd: [GNU/FSF Press] Announcing the GPLv3 Development and Publicity Project
by Ramanraj K 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Sullivan <johns(a)fsf.org> Date: Sep 6, 2005 9:01 PM Subject: [GNU/FSF Press] Announcing the GPLv3 Development and Publicity Project To: info-press(a)fsf.org Announcing the GPL Version 3 Development and Publicity Project (GPLv3) Stichting NLnet donate 150,000 EUR to support GPLv3 activities The Free Software Foundations are proud to announce the creation of the global "GPL Version 3 Development and Publicity Project". The project will bring together thousands of organisations, software developers, and software users from around the globe during 2006, in an effort to update the world's most popular Free Software licence. The GPLv3 promises to be one of the largest participatory comments and adoption efforts ever undertaken. The sister organisations in the United States and Europe are also happy to announce a total grant of 150,000 EUR from Stichting NLnet to support this truly-unique project. The global process will be overseen by the Free Software Foundation with support from its legal counsel the Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC). Free Software Foundation Europe will be coordinating the European activities closely with both organisations and contributing to the global communication effort. Peter Brown, Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation says, "With the release of GPLv3, we aim to increase the international reach of the Free Software movement." To develop this new licence, we will be contacting communities across the globe to ensure their participation in the update of one of the most important social documents of our time." Georg Greve, President of FSF Europe adds, "We are working closely with our sister organisation and the SFLC to make sure GPLv3 will address the overarching and national European issues," and "Europe has a vibrant ecosystem of highly-skilled Free Software developers and small- and medium-sized Free Software enterprises. It will be our goal to strengthen this development and help European governments to build upon it." In announcing the grant to the FSF and FSF Europe, Teus Hagen, chairman of NLnet said, "NLnet's support of the GPL and the Free Software movement, and its desire to see the successful adoption of GPLv3 achieved in the spirit of internationalization, made the funding of this project an important priority for us." Hagen said, "We hope to encourage other grant-making organisations to help fund this unique project". Written by Richard M. Stallman, the founder of the GNU Project and Free Software Foundation, the GNU General Public Licence (``the GPL'') is the Constitution and central licence of the Free Software movement, securing users' rights to freely study, copy, modify, reuse, share and redistribute software. The GPL builds upon the ethical and scientific principle of free, open and collaborative improvement of human knowledge, which was central to the rapid evolution of areas like mathematics, physics, or biology, and adapts it to the area of information technology. By now, the GPL is employed by tens of thousands of software projects, companies and governments around the world, and is supported by large communities of software developers and users who wish to share their work for the benefit of all. The GNU system, the Linux kernel, Samba, MySQL, and many thousands of other GPL'd programs, offer high technological quality as well as political and economic independence and sustainability. GPL'd software runs on or is embedded in devices ranging from mobile phones, PDAs and home networking appliances to mainframes and supercomputing clusters. Independent software developers around the world, as well as every large corporate IT buyer and seller, and a surprisingly large proportion of individual users, interact with the GPL. The current version of the licence, which was written in 1991 and is now 14 years old, has become central to the activities and operation of a large part of all companies and governments and is now in need of review. Stichting NLnet, a non-profit foundation based in The Netherlands, has a mission to stimulate network research and development in the domain of Internet technology. It develops and releases software under the GPL. http://www.nlnet.nl/ For details of the project, please refer to http://www.fsf.org or contact info(a)fsf.org; European activities will also be presented at http://fsfeurope.org, or via contact to team(a)fsfeurope.org. About the Free Software Foundations: The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software - particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants - and free documentation for free software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of software. Their Web site, located at www.fsf.org, is an important source of information about GNU/Linux. Donations to support their work can be made at http://donate.fsf.org. Their headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA. The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), founded 2001, is a charitable non-governmental organisation dedicated to all aspects of Free Software in Europe. Access to software determines who may participate in a digital society. The the Freedoms to use, copy, modify and redistribute software - as described in the Free Software definition - allow equal participation in the information age. Creating awareness for these issues, securing Free Software politically and legally, and giving people Freedom by supporting development of Free Software are central issues of the FSFE. Further information about FSFE's work can be found at http://fsfeurope.org, get active yourself at http://fsfeurope.org/contribute/. Free Software Foundations currently exist in the United States, Europe, India and Latin America. All FSFs form a network of sister organisations. -- John Sullivan Program Administrator | Phone: (617)542-5942 x23 51 Franklin Street, 5th Fl. | Fax: (617)542-2652 Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA | GPG: AE8600B6 _______________________________________________ FSF And GNU Press mailing list <info-press(a)gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-press

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Linux Version of Nila(Malayalam Software) released
by Manilal K M 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

Hi all, The Centre for Development of Imaging Technology (C-DIT) has released the free software version of the official Malayalam language software it had developed for the Department of Official Language. The software, which works on Linux platform, consists of six Malayalam fonts in Unicode and a special editor. It can be downloaded free of charge from the Web site, http://clickeralam.org/downloads.html Read More at: http://www.hindu.com/2005/09/07/stories/2005090700680200.htm The RPM for the above package will also be available soon. regards Manilal

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Free Software Week at MES College of Engineering Kuttippuram
by doxa＠sancharnet.in 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

Workshop in Kerala. Covered nicely by The Hindu. " Workshop to focus on Linux networking KUTTIPPURAM: The Department of Information Technology at MES College of Engineering here will organise a five-day faculty development workshop on `Networking with GNU Linux' from Monday. ..." http://www.hindu.com/2005/09/05/stories/2005090505910300.htm Rgds, CK Raju, Thrissur ------------------ http://ernakulam.sancharnet.in/doxa

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FreeSoftwareDay
by Thejesh GN 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Are we doing anything in Bangalore ? -- Thanks, Thej http://www.techmag.biz

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India teams taking part in www.softwarefreedomday.org
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

India teams taking part in www.softwarefreedomday.org http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/wiki/index.php/India Andhra pradesh * Andhra pradesh(Hyderabad) Gujarat * Anand, Gujarat Goa * Goa Karnataka * Bangalore (http://bangalore.gnu.org.in/?SFD) Kerala * Angamaly * Appropriate Technology Promotion Society (ATPS), Keralam * Chengannur, Kerala * Cochin University of Science & Technology (http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/wiki/index.php/CUSAT) * Kochi, Kerala * Social Entrepreneurship Promotion Society on Information Technology (SEPSIT), Kannur * Thrissur Maharashtra * Mumbai, Maharashtra * Nagpur, Maharashtra * Pune, Maharashtra Tamil Nadu * CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU * Madurai, Tamil Nadu New Delhi * Noida West Bengal * Burdwan, West Bengal Punjab * Moga

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Re: Tools for Journalist
by balachandran c 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

I had made a mistake in my previous mail, kindly read the "krita supports 32 bit color" as "Krita supports 16 bits per channel images". Bala.

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Re: Tools for Journalist
by balachandran c 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

For groupware related software, kolab, hula, opengroupware etc might be useful. >Of course, photo journalists could use Gimp, and cartoonists may be able >to use ktoon or inkscape. Gimp (upto version 2.2.8) does not support CMYK colorspaces, which appears to be important for publishing tasks. There is a plugin which provides partial functionality. Krita supports CMYK, openEXR, 32bit colors, etc. It also supports watercolor simulation. Regards, Balachandran.

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An Aside: Rehnquist Dead
by Ramanraj K 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

A brief biography of Chief Justice William Hubbs Rehnquist (born October 1, 1924 - died September 3, 2005) has been published at http://www.juiceenewsdaily.com/0605/news/ren.html <quote> Rehnquist wrote the decision Diamond v. Diehr, which made a hole in the dike against software patents in the United States erected by Justice Stevens in Parker v. Flook; the dike collapsed within a few years and software patenting is now virtually unlimited. </quote> Rehnquist also dissented in Roe v. Wade. The meaningful decision in Parker v. Flook is published online at http://digital-law-online.info/cases/198PQ193.htm and it remains to be seen if the US Supreme Court would recast Parker v. Flook in the years to come. -Ramanraj

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Tools for Journalist
by Manilal K M 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

Hi all, Is there any specialised tools in GNU/Linux for use of Journalists(Newspaper)? I think scribus is one of them.If there are any more tools please provide info about it. GUI based tools are prefered. also let me know that whether they are used in the industry. regards Manilal

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Fwd: Linux thrives in left-leaning Kerala
by Manilal K M 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

Kerala, a tiny coastal state in south India, is a site of significant popularity of free software and GNU/Linux. What lessons can Kerala teach other areas about using free and open source software? Read More: http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/08/19/1912207&tid=150 regards Manilal

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Software Freedom day: BOF on sunday Sept-04
by Thejesh GN 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

On behalf of Praveen. Bangalore We are planning to have BOF session on Sunday @ 3pm. Place: woodies. Jayanagar. Agenda: Planning programs for the Software Freedom Day/Related discussions. -- Thanks, Thej http://www.techmag.biz

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Fwd: Please respond to this letter: (GNU/Linux gaining Momentum with IT@School)
by Sarath Lakshman 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

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Please send in your nominations for the Free Software Award, 2005
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

http://www.gnu.org/award/ To date, we have given out these FSF Awards for the Advancement of Free Software, recognizing a person who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software: 2005 Send nominations for the 2005 award by 31 October 2005. http://www.fsf.org/news/fs-award-2005.html -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick 'FN' Noronha | fred(a)bytesforall.org | Goa, India Independent Journalist | http://fn.swiki.net | +91(832)2409490 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Indian documentary film blog: http://indiadocu.blogspot.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------

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FSUG in Thrissur?
by Tinku Sampath 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Hello everybody, I have been here, in this mailing list, for a month. I am Tinku Sampath from Kerala. I am doing 4th semester of MCA at Govt. Engineering College, Thrissur, Kerala. As some of you know, we MCA students were behind the Renaissance 2005, the well appreciated, but at the same time unpopular national seminar on Free and Open Source Software which was held on last February at the college. We organized the event as the first little contribution to the Free Software community from our part. Hope that Renaissance 2006 will be realized in a more passionate way and will fulfill everyones expectation. Let me come to the purpose of this mail. We are planning to build a Free Software Users Group (FSUG) for our college. At this occasion, we would like to know is there are any other FSUGs or LUGs or GLUGs or any kind of that working now concentrating Thrissur. If there, we can together form an active one. I think, this will be a great opportunity for our college students to contribute their technical abilities in promoting the FLOSS. If there is any existing group, please mail me with details as soon as possible. I would like to invite each member of this group to contribute their ideas or dream about an FSUG. I am sure that your experience and expertise will help us in various matters. - Tinku Sampath

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